This presentation was given as part of the Dylan at FIU Symposium in Miami, FL on 9 April, 2022, organised by the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, on the occasion of the closing of Retrospectrum, the big exhibition of Bob Dylan's visual art.
I've included our Q&A at the end, but you can watch the complete panel, "Beyond Generations Symposium: Conversation about Dylan as Artist, Thinker, Poet, Performer," with Richard F. Thomas, Rebecca Slaman, and Anne Margaret Daniel here: th-cam.com/video/FtLj-WXM27U/w-d-xo.html
Thank you to Rebecca Friedman and Enrique Roswell for making this event possible, and for editing the footage from the live stream to include the slides.
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A small note:
One of the examples for Dylan's Deep Focus paintings, "The Novelist" (doesn't he look like Leonard Cohen?), has not actually been identified as a film still yet. A lot of the paintings come from films, and they all share that pictorial depth and cinematic quality, but for the sake of accuracy, it should be pointed out that it's possible that particular image doesn't come from a film.
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